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Auction: 15046 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale featuring the John Sussex Collection of South West Africa,1880-1928
Lot: 529

(x) Canada
Canadian Contingents in the Boer War, 1899-1902
The John Wannerton Collection, Part 2
The First Contingent, 2nd. (Special Service) Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment
The Units
1900 (3 July) unstamped envelopes (2) ex the same correspondence from C.E. Frye of "C" Company at Springs, Transvaal to Sherbrooke, both marked "No stamps" and with F.P.O. 30 c.d.s. and with good strikes of the oval-framed "canadian contingent/south africa" datestamp (9.7) in lilac, and 1900 (2? July) blue OHMS (deleted) envelope (217x95mm.) from R.C. Bach of "E" Company at Pretoria to Montreal, marked "On Active Service RCR 7606 Pretoria Z.A.R.", showing part Army P.O. c.d.s., fine oval-framed "canadian contingent/south africa" datestamp (30.7) in violet and Montreal Free datestamp (30.8), all on face. Photo

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